AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO M. WAKEMON, ESQR., FORTIETH CONGRESS, U.S., WASHINGTON D.C. DECEMBER 14TH, 1867: M. WAKEMAN, ESQR.| SOUTHPORT CONN.| DEAR SIR, YOUR LETTER OF THE 28TH. ULT. WAS DULY RECD.| I BEG YOUR PARDON FOR NOT HAVING SENT YOU A COPY OF MY PHOTOGRAPH IN RESPONSE TO YOUR FORMER POLITE NOTES. THE TRUTH IS THAT I HAVE NOT HAD ONE SINCE YOU WROTE TO ME REQUESTING A COPY. I CAN ONLY NOW PROMISE YOU THAT DURING THE WINTER I WILL SIT FOR SOME PHOTOGRAPHER AND SEND YOU A COPY OF THE RESULT.| I AM GREATLY OBLIGED TO YOU FOR YOUR KIND EXPRESSIONS OF REGARD; AND I DO NOT THINK WE WOULD QUARREL MUCH OVER OPINIONS RELATIVE TO THE PRESIDENT. IF YOU HAVE LESS REGARD FOR HIM THAN I HAVE, THEN, GOD HELP HIM IF THERE ARE MORE LIKE YOU; FOR I

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Manuscript, 1p, 8" x 10", written on Congressional letterhead [ornate typesetting with inset illustration of the House of Representatives]. Very Good. When he wrote this bitterly critical letter of President Johnson, Republican Congressman Wilson of Iowa chaired the House Judiciary Committee. "He used fully his strategic position as chairman to forward abolition and the Union program. War measures that he fathered included the article prohibiting the use of troops in the return of fugitive slaves, enfranchisement of negroes in the District of Columbia.[H]e introduced the original resolution for an abolition Amendment. During the turmoil of Reconstruction he was one of the ablest leaders among the legalistic Radicals." The influential Wilson, despite his dislike of Johnson, had originally opposed impeachment calls: he voted "against the original impeachment charges, giving an elaborate argument that was sustained by the House." [DAB] He argued that impeachment could only be pursued for a violation of a specific law. But when Johnson fired War Secretary Edwin Stanton in violation of the Tenure of Office Act [a statute of doubtful constitutionality], Wilson agreed to the impeachment. He helped to draw up the Articles of Impeachment and served as one of the two trial managers of the proceedings. Maurice Wakeman is listed in 1870 Federal Census as a 65-year-old farmer and resident of Fairfield, Connecticut, with a post office in Southport.…

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AUTOGRAPH LETTER SIGNED, TO M. WAKEMON, ESQR., FORTIETH CONGRESS, U.S., WASHINGTON D.C. DECEMBER 14TH, 1867: M. WAKEMAN, ESQR.| SOUTHPORT CONN.| DEAR SIR, YOUR LETTER OF THE 28TH. ULT. WAS DULY RECD.| I BEG YOUR PARDON FOR NOT HAVING SENT YOU A COPY OF MY PHOTOGRAPH IN RESPONSE TO YOUR FORMER POLITE NOTES. THE TRUTH IS THAT I HAVE NOT HAD ONE SINCE YOU WROTE TO ME REQUESTING A COPY. I CAN ONLY NOW PROMISE YOU THAT DURING THE WINTER I WILL SIT FOR SOME PHOTOGRAPHER AND SEND YOU A COPY OF THE RESULT.| I AM GREATLY OBLIGED TO YOU FOR YOUR KIND EXPRESSIONS OF REGARD; AND I DO NOT THINK WE WOULD QUARREL MUCH OVER OPINIONS RELATIVE TO THE PRESIDENT. IF YOU HAVE LESS REGARD FOR HIM THAN I HAVE, THEN, GOD HELP HIM IF THERE ARE MORE LIKE YOU; FOR I
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Wilson, James F.
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